Holiday Hideaways
These festive cookies are fabulous for holiday baking. Sugar cookies are filled with maraschino cherries then dipped in chocolate or vanilla bark and sprinkled with chocolate shavings.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups Gold Medal UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 24 maraschino cherries well drained, about one 10-oz. jar
- 12 oz. white confectionery coating divided
- 12 tbsp. butter melted
- 12 oz. dark chocolate confectionary coating
- Finely chopped pecans if desired
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, cream sugar, butter, egg, milk, vanilla, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
- Add flour and stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
- Chill dough for a few hours to make for easier handling.
- Form 2 teaspoonfuls of dough into a ball.
- Flatten ball and place a cherry in the center; shape dough around cherry.
- Repeat with remaining dough and cherries.
- Place balls 2 inches apart on greased baking sheets.
- Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until set and edges are lightly browned. (Mine took about 16 minutes).
- Cool 1 minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- Grate 2-oz. white confectionery coating; set aside.
- Grate 2-oz. chocolate confectionery coating; set aside.
- Melt remaining white coating with 6 tbsp. of butter; melt dark coating with remaining butter.
- (Use more butter if you need to make the bark thin enough to coat the cookie well.)
- Dip half the cookies into white coating; place on waxed paper.
- Sprinkle with grated chocolate bark or pecans.
- Dip remaining cookies in dark coating; place on waxed paper.
- Sprinkle with grated white coating.
- Store in a covered container in the refrigerator.
Notes
NOTE: Confectionery coating is found in the baking section of most grocery stores. It is sometimes labeled “almond bark” or “candy coating” and is often sold in bulk packages of 1-1 ½ lbs.
NOTE: Preparation time does not include time required to chill dough.
Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.
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